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• You forget what it was like. You'd swear on your life you never will, but year by year it falls away. How your temperature ran off the mercury, your heart galloped flat-out and never needed to rest, everything was pitched on the edge of shattering glass. How wanting something was like dying of thirst. How your skin was too fine to keep out any of the million things flooding by; every color boiled bright enough to scald you, any second of any day could send you soaring or rip you to bloody shreds.

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  Life, Rip, Fall

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• Only teenagers think boring is bad. Adults, grown men and women who've been around the block a few times, know that boring is a gift straight from God. Life has more than enough excitement up its sleeve, ready to hit you with as soon as you're not looking, without you adding to the drama.

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  Drama, Block, Teenager

  Tana French (2008). “The Likeness: Dublin Murder Squad: 2”, p.572, Hachette UK

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• I had been right: freedom smelled like ozone and thunderstorms and gunpowder all at once, like snow and bonfires and cut grass, it tasted like seawater and oranges.

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  Cutting, Ozone, Orange

  Tana French (2008). “The Likeness: Dublin Murder Squad: 2”, p.345, Hachette UK

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• Now that's a concept that's always fascinated me: the real world. Only a very specific subset of people use the term, have you noticed? To me, it seems self-evident that everyone lives in the real world - we all breathe real oxygen, eat real food, the earth under our feet feels equally solid to all of us. But clearly these people have a far more tightly circumscribed definition of reality, one that I find deeply mysterious, and an almost pathologically intense need to bring others into line with that definition.

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  Real, Self, Oxygen

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• Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out of my career: to be able to get up in the morning and do what I love doing.

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  Morning, Writing, Careers

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• Regardless of the advertising campaigns may tell us, we can't have it all. Sacrifice is not an option, or an anachronism; it's a fact of life. We all cut off our own limbs to burn on some altar. The crucial thing is to choose an altar that's worth it and a limb you can accept losing. To go consenting to the sacrifice.

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  Cutting, Sacrifice, May

  Tana French (2008). “The Likeness: Dublin Murder Squad: 2”, p.412, Hachette UK

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• Sometimes I think about the sly, flickering line that separates being spared from being rejected. Sometimes I think of the ancient gods who demanded that their sacrifices be fearless and without blemish, and I wonder whether, whoever or whatever took Peter and Jamie away, it decided I wasn't good enough.

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  Sacrifice, Thinking, Fearless

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• Have you noticed how easily the very young die? They make the best martyrs for any cause, the best soldiers, the best suicides. It's because they're held here so lightly: they haven't yet accumulated loves and responsibilities and commitments and all the things that tie us securely to this world. They can let go of it as easily and simply as lifting a finger. But as you get older, you begin to find things that are worth holding onto, forever.

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  Letting Go, Suicide, Commitment

  "The Likeness". Book by Tana French, 2009.

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• Everyone else we knew growing up is the same: image of their parents, no matter how loud they told themselves they'd be different

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  Growing Up, Parent, Different

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• With acting, you have to depend on somebody else to decide if you are allowed to work. You can spend weeks and months when you are not acting at all.

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  Acting, Months, Week

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• My father told me once that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for.

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  Father, Pride, Men

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• I wasn't sure I could make it through another hour of his company without throwing my stapler at his head.

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  Hours, Throwing, Company

  Tana French (2008). “The Likeness: Dublin Murder Squad: 2”, p.60, Hachette UK

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